Bordine said the pup was amazingly calm throughout the ordeal. "As Jose held him, I was able to pull stickers out of his mouth," he said. "He didn't bite or make a sound."

Once the pup was free from the cactus, it ran to her mother and followed her and its siblings back across the golf course, Maxwell said.

This was not the first time that Bordine and Soto have come to the aid of wild animals in need. Last year on Pebblebrook Golf Course's 13th green, the pair rescued a red-tailed hawk that had fallen out of the nest and was too young to fly.